This might be a duplicate question, but I haven't checked the 13 pages before.

Just wondering why Racy and Wary 5.2 don't allow running Firefox and Thunderbird from /mnt/home anymore?
Also, neither FF 7.0.1 (or 8.0) nor TB is available by way of PPM.

I'd appreciate some comments as to the reasons for these surprising restrictions.

To run generic Firefox you would need to install dbus and dbus-glib from the package manager. Racy certainly does allow running browser from mnt/home, doing so now._________________Spup Frugal HD and USB
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SiS video grief persists. So what changed? Who doesn't like SiS? ATI & nV require bloated drivers to produce the goods whereas SiS in other distros does not.

Later:
Some progress. With some, but not all, HW combos, using initial default 1900x??? and an electron microscope to view, then CTRL-ALT-BKspce, XOrgwizard, select native res. (1440x900 in this case) from a 'regular' Probe, ignore predictions about what might/might not work and set 1024x768@24bit gives the desired result. This result cannot be obtained by jiggling the Quickset utility. All this Mickey Mouse shouldn't be necessary because, evidently, all the correct information lies somewhere within the installed kernel/code/drivers.

ALSA no longer detecting legacy ISA sound cards, even though it runs through the process and lists the drivers.
SM crashes after ~5mins on older AGP cards, eg RIVA TNT2. Might not be able to handle more than 5 open tabs/one window? No such problems with Opera. Why isn't Opera in the PPM list?!

PCLinux- Phoenix Edition has an utility Systeminfo v0.6.3 which gives a textual list of options. The first of these reads some basic BIOS info (dmidecode). It's very difficult for regular folk to remember all the arcane Unix commands that a simple list like this is perfect. This is so valuable in testing that it's worth booting this distro just for that. Any chance of adding this to Racy or Wary? Probably only a kb or so in code?
Lots of other goodies along with my favourite desktop - Xfce - in that distro.

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